# Continuum API, free: People search API

> Search prospects by job title, company, industry, and location, then drop them straight into an outbound sequence — no CSV export, no manual re-upload.

Continuum API's people search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. It returns 1 of the 13 key fields we check: Experience.
We haven't run Continuum API through [our people search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 618 plans for people search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.574 per 1,000 people or less.
[Coresignal's $49 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/coresignal/49-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 people: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 people.
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack (/api/v1/search)](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack-starter-post-api-v1-search/llms.txt) covers any number of people. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/getprospect/49-monthly-starter-post-v2-people-search-people-search/llms.txt), [QuickEnrich](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/29-monthly-starter-post-api-employees-contact-finder/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10-manual-top-up-post-v1-run-people-search-quickenrich/llms.txt) are the best people search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/free
- [People lookup API: 40+ people search providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-people-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://continuumapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.continuumapi.com/v1/finder/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://continuumapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://continuumapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Continuum API (https://continuumapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Experience: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Send an email: 1,000 a month · from the same budget: Verify · Bulk jobs · Register a monitor

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search prospects by job title, company, industry, and location, then drop them straight into an outbound sequence — no CSV export, no manual re-upload.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to this Agreement, Customer may use the Cloud Service for its own business purposes during each Subscription Term. [...] Customer will not use the Cloud Service for High Risk Activities or submit Sensitive Data (health information, financial account numbers, government IDs, GDPR Article 9 special categories) to the Cloud Service. Customer will not and will not permit anyone else to: (a) sell, sublicense or rent the Cloud Service, (b) reverse engineer or decompile the Cloud Service, (c) copy, modify or create derivative works of the Cloud Service, (d) conduct security tests that interfere with operation, or (e) use the Cloud Service to develop a competing product

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: personTitleIncludes, companyIndustryIncludes, personLocationCountryIncludes, totalResults
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/finder/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone using it for its own business purposes

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

email, first name, last name, company name, job title, LinkedIn URL, email status

## Continuum API's plans (5)

- [Continuum API, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Continuum API, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/29-monthly/llms.txt): $11.60 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Continuum API, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/79-monthly/llms.txt): $10.533 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Continuum API, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.98 per 1,000, 8% complete
- [Continuum API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 8% complete

## Continuum API's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/finder/search`: [Continuum API, free](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/free/llms.txt)

## Continuum API's APIs (2)

- [Continuum API: people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/continuum-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Continuum API: email verification API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/bulk-jobs](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/continuum-api/free-post-v1-bulk-jobs/llms.txt)
- [Continuum API: email verification API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/continuum-api/free-post-v1-verify/llms.txt)

## Continuum API: people search API alternatives

- [QuickEnrich, $99 monthly, Growth, GET /api/employees/dataset-search](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/quickenrich/99-monthly-growth-get-api-employees-dataset-search/llms.txt): $3.96 per 1,000, 8% complete, stored
- [Lusha, $854.90 monthly, Premium, 8,600 credits a month, POST /v3/contacts/prospecting, Prospecting Contacts](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/lusha/854-90-monthly-premium-8600-credits-a-month-post-v3-contacts-prospecting-prospecting-contacts/llms.txt): $3.976 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 week
- [Argorant, $599 monthly, Scale 150,000 credits a month, POST /api/v1/people/reveal](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/argorant/599-monthly-scale-150000-credits-a-month-post-api-v1-people-reveal/llms.txt): $3.993 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [The Swarm, $96,000 yearly, Enterprise 20000, POST /v3/profiles/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/the-swarm/96000-yearly-enterprise-20000-post-v3-profiles-fetch/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 85% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://continuumapi.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/product?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/refunds?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/verify?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing
- https://continuumapi.com/vs-email-finder?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=people-search-api-pricing